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A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1) QUOTES

A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1) QUOTES

1 " Dad is the established crier of the family. He was asked to 'get a grip or leave the theater' during the last twenty minutes of Coco. "

― Alix E. Harrow , A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)

2 " I never stopped trying to save you, so don't you fucking dare stop trying to save yourself. "

― Alix E. Harrow , A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)

3 " I see her choosing now whether to make her love into a cage or a key. "

― Alix E. Harrow , A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)

4 " I should have spent more time thinking about your life than worrying about your death. "

― Alix E. Harrow , A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)

5 " Hey, it's okay, alright? I'll walk with you, every step. You won't be alone." We might not be able to fix our bullshit stories, but surely we can be less lonely inside them, here at the end. "Just go to sleep. I'm right here. "

― Alix E. Harrow , A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)

6 " Their love has hung above me like the sun, a burning brightness I could survive only if I never looked straight at it, never flew too close. "

― Alix E. Harrow , A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)

7 " Sleeping Beauty is the worst fairy tale, pretty much any way you slice it.
It’s aimless and amoral and chauvinist as shit. It’s the fairy tale that feminist scholars cite when they want to talk about women’s passivity in historical narratives. (“She literally sleeps through her own climax,” as my favorite gender studies professor used to say. “Double entendre fully intended.”)...

..Even among the other nerds who majored in folklore, Sleeping Beauty is nobody’s favorite. The romantic girls like Beauty and the Beast; basic girls like Cinderella; goth girls like Snow White. Only the dying girls like Sleeping Beauty. "

― Alix E. Harrow , A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)

8 " I'm turning away when Prince Harold says, his voice thick and fleshy through his swollen nose, "I don't understand." His eyes are on Primrose and Charm, on the place where their hands are joined together so tightly they look like a single creature.

"Well, Harold," I say gently. "They're lesbians. "

― Alix E. Harrow , A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)

9 " In that moment he reminds me of Charm’s parents, or maybe my own: a person whose love is a burdensome thing, a weight dragging always at your ankles. "

― Alix E. Harrow , A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)

10 " I'm at least three-fourths straight, but her lashes are very long, and very golden, and I'm not made of stone. "

― Alix E. Harrow , A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)

11 " I riffle through my mental box of inspirational quotes and come up with a Dylan Thomas line that I actually know from Interstellar. “Do not go gentle into that good night, princess. "

― Alix E. Harrow , A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)

12 " Maybe the universe doesn’t naturally bend toward justice either; maybe it’s only the weight of hands and hearts pulling it true, inch by stubborn inch. "

― Alix E. Harrow , A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)

13 " This time, when I press my finger to the end of a splintered spindle, I’m smiling. "

― Alix E. Harrow , A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)

14 " Close your eyes and go to sleep and let the world go on without you? "

― Alix E. Harrow , A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)

15 " It's one of the rules for dying girls: if you like something, like it hsrd, because you don't have a lot of time to waste. "

― Alix E. Harrow , A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)

16 " It was like a spark falling into my mind, catching me on fire. I asked for your help because it was the first time I thought anyone could help me. "

― Alix E. Harrow , A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)

17 " All of them stepped out of their own narratives to save someone else "

― Alix E. Harrow , A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)

18 " Maybe the universe doesn't naturally bend toward justice either; maybe it's only the weight of hands and hearts pulling it true, inch by stubborn inch. "

― Alix E. Harrow , A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)

19 " You know it wasn't originally a spinning wheel in the story?' I offer, because alcohol transforms me into a chatty Wikipedia. "

― Alix E. Harrow , A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)

20 " Primrose is watching me as if I'm a grisly car accident or a public marriage proposal: gruesome but mesmerizing. "

― Alix E. Harrow , A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)